John Mattox

A friend of a friend here in Asheville has previously taught at IONS.

She offered to “ask my contacts at IONS if they know of availability”.

She also shared:

The book upon which it was based is available from variius sources like this; https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Heart-Healing-companion-TBS-series-Poole/77132916/bd

The Heart of…[Read more]

It has only recently seeped into my awareness that writing a scientific paper on  PKS 1622-297 was an act of autocosmoloy.

Frankly, when I was working at NASA in the nineteen-nineties, my attention was distracted by a less noble motivation, something often labeled, ‘publish or perish’.

At the time, I was working at NASA Goddard’s Space Flight Ce…[Read more]

During my life, I’ve also had interesting ideas, only to I find with some research, were not original.

In the nineteen-nineties, while I was working at NASA Goddard’s space flight Center as the Instrument Specialist for the EGRET instrument on the Compton Gama Ray telescope, I thought of using the extant cable-TV infrastructure for high bandwith…[Read more]

I am a retired experimental astrophysicist

I grew up in Deadwood, SD, and then enrolled at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, intending to major in physics. During my one year there, I was on the varsity wrestling team, and came across Eckankar, which lead me to stop out of college for five years to seriously pursue mysticism.

I…[Read more]

I’d like to suggest that another definition of autocosmology is, the cosmos writing about itself!

Here is an interesting example of autocosmology that I was involved in. In 1997, I was the lead author on a paper in the Astrophysical Journal (1997ApJ…476..692M) about a quasar in the blazar class named PKS 1622-297. We observed its gamma-ray flux…[Read more]

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Careful what you add – I don’t think we have the functionality to delete!

David,

Thank you for this great contribution!

I also feel a yearning to extend my lifespan. During my annual medicare-sponsored checkup, two weeks ago I told my general practitioner that I hope to live to be 140 (I’m 71 now). He laughed and responded that this puts a lot of responsibility on his care! He is a great fit for me. He’s from South…[Read more]

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During our initial zoom meeting. we discussed environmentalism. David (who serves on the Pugwash Council – an international group of scientists concerned about nuclear war, founded by Bertrand Russel and Albert Einstein) lamented the now diminished effort of scientists to prevent nuclear war.

Sarbmeet suggested that rationale and motivation for…[Read more]

I wrote the following script to present at an event in Asheville on 3/14/26 called Death on Stage. This was not selected for inclusion in the program…

Einstein wrote in 1931 about death: …an individual who should survive his physical death is – beyond my comprehension… Such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. I am sat…[Read more]

During our course Zoom meeting on Radiance (Session 9 on 3/10/26), John asked Brian about death. This 4 minute dialogue occurs in the recording from 1:32:38 – 1:36:55. Here is John’s transcript.

BrianThomasSwimme: Welcome. John!

John Mattox: So I’ve been thinking about what happens after we die. Does what we’ve created live on through eternity…[Read more]

It seems that the 11 powers of the Universe that Brian has enumerated have an compelling analogy to something that is of human concern.

There are many additional behaviors in nature without such analogy, e.g., sublimation, the transformation of a solid material directly into its vapor form.

Are there others that do have a compelling human…[Read more]

This group was founded my participants in the 2026 Deep Time Course, Activating Cosmogenetic Experience to explore cosmogenesis from the perspective of practicing or retired scientists.

Founding participants included: John Mattox, Stephan Martin, David Ellwood, Sarbmeet Kanwal, and Francie White. Although it is not a requirement to participate…[Read more]

Googling, “scientific status of Brian Swimme’s 11 powers of the universe”. Google AI offered this summary: This is categorized as an interdisciplinary synthesis of cosmology, philosophy, and spirituality rather than a set of peer-reviewed scientific laws.  AI also summarizes critical reception as follows: Positive: Proponents view it as a “brave,…[Read more]

Brian first introduced the Eleven Powers of the Universe in an 11-part video lecture series titled The Powers of the Universe, which was released on DVD on September 23, 2004.

1. Centration
Every being arises as a centered reality with its own integrity, coherence, and inward orientation. From particles to planets to persons, each entity g…[Read more]